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Elementary Art |
| Aborigine Rock Art Project Australia’s aborigines painted on rock walls, the bark of eucalptus trees, on boomerangs and utensils. They even painted designs on their own bodies. Line was the art element that they used most. They could draw lines in the sand with their fingers. They chewed the ends of twigs to make brushes for painting lines. They created intricate pattern designs and simple stick figures with lines. X-Ray Drawings are unique to the ancient Aborigines. In their art, they not only drew the “outsides” of plants and animals, but also the “insides.” Notice the internal organs and spinal vertebrae in the fighting kangaroos. The Aborigines had to know everything about plants and animals in order to provide food, clothing and shelter. |  Student Drawing  Aborigine X-Ray Painting | |
| Objective: Teach a cultural art lesson using the art element of LINE and the design principles of pattern and repetition. Materials: Large brown paper bags (one for each student) and black markers. Optional - twigs and white poster paint for "painting" lines and dots. Instructions: 1. Share Aborigine culture information with students. 2. Give each student a large brown paper bag. 3. Tell students to tear-out a large section of the bag to create a segment of "rock". Make sure that edges are uneven. 4. Next students wad the torn paper segment into a ball and then unfold and flatten to create the texture of a rock on the brown paper surface. Optional: Students may want to paint the brown paper "rock" surface a reddish brown color to simulate Australia’s sandstone. 5. Students draw their design onto the "rock" surface with black markers and decorate with white paint, applied with twigs or paint brushes. 6. Display the rock art designs on black mural paper and celebrate the Aborigines of Australia! Include cultural information in your display. |
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